Blogging for the Gray Wolf

Despite the hateful rhetoric. tall tales and downright lies being spewed about wolves from the anti-wolf crowd, a new poll shows support for wolves and the ESA is strong in America!!

“Support for the ongoing recovery of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies came in at 78 percent, Goldman says, adding that some people might be surprised by that figure given what the public has heard and read recently.

“I think there’s a small but vocal minority that’s putting out this idea that the wolf is the enemy, and this poll shows the opposite. Americans recognize the gray wolf as part of our wildlife heritage.”

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64% to just 26% of those polled believe:

“The ESA is a safety net providingbalanced solutions tosave wildlife, plants and fish that are at risk of extinction”

while only 29% believe it’s a tool used by environmentalists

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Americans also agree by 63% to 29% that:

Decisions about whether to removethe EndangeredSpecies Act’sprotections should be based on science, not politics

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TAKE NOTE OF THIS POLL US SENATE BEFORE YOU TRY TO PASS ANY WOLF DELISTING RIDERS IN THE BUDGET BILL!!

Poll Finds Strong Public Support for Endangered Species Act…and Wolves

March 11, 2011

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A new poll showing strong public support for the Endangered Species Act comes as the U.S. House of Representatives considers a stopgap federal spending plan that includes removing endangered species protection for the gray wolf.

Wolves don’t live in Connecticut but have been sighted as near as Massachusetts.

The poll also found that 92 percent of respondents felt that scientists, not politicians, should make wildlife-management decisions. Derek Goldman, spokesman for the Endangered Species Coalition, says it’s not a party-line issue.

“Across all political ideologies, Americans support the Endangered Species Act and recognize that it’s a safety net for protecting fish, plants and wildlife that are on the brink of extinction.”

The coalition paid for the poll and did similar polling six years ago with similar results.

Support for the ongoing recovery of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies came in at 78 percent, Goldman says, adding that some people might be surprised by that figure given what the public has heard and read recently.

“I think there’s a small but vocal minority that’s putting out this idea that the wolf is the enemy, and this poll shows the opposite. Americans recognize the gray wolf as part of our wildlife heritage.”

Connecticut lists nine endangered species, including several sea turtles, the right whale and the roseate tern

Humankind needs the wolf. We see in the wolf those values and traits without which we as a species will perish. A human being without a family, without roots, without work, a human being without a sense of place, of location of community, is like a wolf without its pack, its home territory, its sense of belonging and purpose and security. The person becomes alienated, fearful, opportunistic, amoral, and, above all, alone. A society–or worse, a world–built of such people has lost its center, its heritage, and quite possibly determined its downfall. The wolf reminds us of what we cannot forget: that our origins are out there, in the cold, windy outback of time, and that we are,despite
all of the tinsel and trappings of civilization, still very much a part of that wild nature.

John A. Murray~~~ Out Among The Wolves, Contemporary Writings On The Wolf
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There are so many petitions going around. I just signed this and wanted to share it.

This blog is dedicated to the memory of Wolf 253, the beloved Yellowstone Druid wolf named Limpy, who was shot and killed in March 08, on the very day ESA protections were lifted for the gray wolf, by the then Bush Administration.